What does peta do?

Question

what extacly does peta stand for... i heard they hurt animals more then help them? i want to be vegatarien/vegan but i'd starve and i hateeeeeeeee animal abuse so much. if your a vegatarien what meat can you not eat? does that include milk and eggs? ( i know i can't spell.)

Answer 1

Peta stands for: People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People_for_...

I am a vegetarian. Vegetarians can eat milk and eggs.

If you don't eat milk eggs or any other types of meat, you are considered as a Vegan.

And I have heard that Peta hurts animals, but they don't. Believe me. People (Peta Haters mostly) say that because they are mad that Peta is taking out Businesses that sell real fur. For instance Jennifer Lopez and her real fur coats.

Answer 2

peta could do so much more good if they worried about species dying rather than individual domestic animals dying. People might treat cows rather shabbily, but the cow is not going to disappear from the planet. I've never seen a panda treated badly, however, and look how far up the creek they are. I believe that in the future we will realise that we  have to treat animals more fairly, but first we need to prioritize our resources and make sure there are lots of animals around next century for us to treat better. Vegetarianism is good, and commendable, but buying meat that has been certified as ethically obtained is also good if you really like meat, and wild game can also be a better alternative than your local hamburger - as long as the species/herd is in good numbers and not threatened by over hunting or other, more serious things like habitat destruction. WWF is a better place to put your money than peta.

Answer 3

PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) is an animal rights group.  They are fighting for animals to receive legal rights (no ownership of animals, no use of animals as labor, no use of animals for food or products, no use of animals for entertainment, no laboratory testing, etc.)  The ASPCA (American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals) is not an animal rights group; it is an animal welfare group.  They are not against the use of animals for pets, food, entertainment, etc as long as the animals are treated humanely at all times.  I personally have no problem with people keeping pets or raising food animals, but I detest people who neglect, beat, or torture animals - so PETA is not a good fit for me, but the ASPCA is.  For you, it all depends on what you consider to be animal abuse.

As for hurting animals, statistically, PETA does euthanize a higher percentage of animals than the ASPCA.  Sometimes, radicals have acted in ways that do ultimately cause harm to  animals (for examples - releasing domestic rabbits into the wild where they can't survive or releasing captive animals into  the wild where they can damage the local ecosystem.)

For your diet - figure out what you believe.  If you believe it is unethical to utilize animals for food, then you will want to become a vegetarian or vegan.  If you believe people to be natural omnivores, then don't feel guilty about eating meat.

Becoming a vegetarian will not make you starve, but you will have to give your diet a little more consideration to make sure you are getting the right nutrition.  Vegetarians do eat milk and eggs.  Some vegetarians also eat fish.  All vegetarians avoid eating beef, pork, chicken, and game meats.

Vegans avoid eating any animal product (and some refuse to eat anything that results from animal labor - for example - honey).  Obviously, some exceptions have to be made or you would starve (a good portion of our foods are pollinated by insects, and ground-up insects have a way of making it into our groceries.)  I don't know much about the nutritional value of a vegan diet, but there are lots of people who survive on it.

As for becoming a vegetarian or a vegan, you need to decide based on YOUR beliefs and values.  Don't let anyone else talk you into something you don't want to do or talk you out of something that you really want to do.  Good luck!

Answer 4

Personally I do not believe in what PETA does, despite their website and videos are what made me into a vegitarian. I do not support how animals are treated on this planet. We may be supposed to eat them, but I do not support how the meat, skins, fur, etc, is retrieved from the animals.

The thing with PETA though, is they don't care about your own rights or beliefs, as long as they are the same as theirs. They'll shove a video of an animal getting slaughtered infront of a young child, or a teenager, and the child, being influenced by everything at such an age, will likely go vegitarian or vegan. That's PETA's way of getting more to join their group.

Answer 5

What do they do? They do DEATH, is what they do.

Answer 6

people for equal treatment of animals?? they are like the extremists of animal activism so there are umors (idk if theyre true) that they hurt animals to prove their point that hurting them is wrong

about what you can or cant eat theres level of vegetarianism and some like vegans wont eat anything that has animanls or animals byproducts in it (they wont wear leather, take drugs that have been tested on animals, etc) but some just dont eat meat (but will eat fish, milk, and eggs) so it just depends

Answer 7

Ms. Lovegood is mostly right but PETA slaughters 10 times the number of strays that the ASPCA does every year. They are not a group I would associate myself with ever.